Three Days Potty Training Success!

Posted on July 22, 2013

You know, there are always those stages about the kids that all parents say, oh I miss that, they’re growing so fast and blah, blah, blah. Well not in the case of potty training! This is one stage I am happy to be done with! Proud and happy because we don’t have anymore diapers around the house and it was done basically in 3 days! 3 days potty training success!

The beginning was the hardest; planning a 3 day weekend to stay at home doing this was super hard for me, nothing to look up to really, except for the fact that she would be done with diapers.

Derek and Adrian were out on Friday for work and school, so it was easy to focus on Maya and then on Saturday and Sunday Derek took Adrian out for long periods of time, so it was mostly Maya and me at home, which made it easy, I concentrated on her and as you know, I had my potty training checklist, so lots of activities prepared, fun different ways to drink liquids and lots of prizes.

She loved them all but her most favorite was doing crafts with glue, she used up the whole glue bottle I had!

We watched TV, we baked cookies, she played with play dough, she did puzzles, she did tons of different crafts and she colored too. But after all the activities she would ask to use the glue again so as long as she was happy I let her (I love how she would wear all her prizes, the crown, the necklaces, earrings ♥).

She was busy crafting or coloring and all of sudden she started peeing, I immediately grabbed her and carried her to the toilet while she was still going! Crazy cleanup, a trail of pee!! It took her at least 3 times of going pee on the floor before she grasped the idea of having to tell me to go potty. The prizes had her at hello, the first time she went even a little bit on the toilet I gave her one of the little prizes and she was fascinated.

I think that by day 2 she was better but still peed on the floor. She did start telling me she had to go potty because she noticed she got the prizes and she even started asking for certain prizes, she would say: Mami, I’ll wait here for the prize but don’t give me more lollipops, or don’t give me more stickers! Ha! They catch on quick!! She was asking for the big stuff!

By the end of day 3 she was actually asking to go a lot more than she needed to, sometimes she would ask like 3 times in a row and nothing came out, but she made sure to ask: Mami, are you going to give me a surprise? I started getting worried that I didn’t have enough surprises to give her and what would happen if I didn’t give her one? Would she feel upset and not want to go to the bathroom again? I forgot how it happened with Adrian at that point, but you know what? Everything was ok, slowly I didn’t give her more prizes after that weekend, I didn’t even say no, I just diverted her attention to something else and she forgot about it (sometimes!).

The training during the night is harder. I made a night routine chart for her (same as Adrian’s!): Reading a book, going potty, brushing her teeth, going to be and keeping the bed dry. She did have one night of those 3 days that she didn’t wet the bed and then after that, she has been wetting the bed a lot, but I refuse to use pull-ups or anything else, it goes against this training.

She does feel bigger and says it, she says she isn’t a baby anymore, that she is a big girl and she feels proud. We make sure not to give her much liquids a couple of hours before bed and it is getting better, I think that right now she wets her bed 1 day of the week only, not bad. The problem is that she loves to come to our bed sometimes at the middle of the night so we are trying to change that, I try and take her to the bathroom as soon as she comes or I try to take her back to her bed again and have succeeded little by little because she already peed twice in our bed after the training and only the second time we were prepared with some improvised liners but it didn’t work not as well.

The priceless moments were the ones where I could see her so excited after going successfully, I loved that and then seeing her do her little dance before she needs to go, I can recognize it instantly!

After her potty training we feel she has developed in other ways, she talks more clearly, she acts differently and for some reason, she just looks bigger. It’s a new stage and we like it! I super recommend the three-day potty training all the way!